Little Big Town sleeping on 'Your Side of the Bed'

Little Big Town embraces sadness with a brand-new video for their unusually subtle power ballad, "Your Side Of The Bed," the third single from group's fifth studio album, "Tornado." The unabashedly sad new song that's about just what the title implies–that feeling when partners in a romantic relationship drift apart. Little Big Town's compelling new ballad boasts all the ingredients of a country classic, sizzles with emotional tension, and deliver performances that capture the loneliness and angst of a couple wrestling with the growing distance in their relationship.
The Little Big Town quartet share co-writing credits with Lori McKenna on this yearning Country ballad, which performed in duet form between married lead vocals from Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook. "I love that this lyric is so brutally honest," said Fairchild. "There are times in a relationship when you allow things to come between you, so much so that it feels like an incredibly long way back to each other. It's a lonely place to be especially when you're lying right next to someone you love."
The emphatic ballad strikes a pitch that resonates deep within any couple that's been married long enough to outrun the honeymoon period. It's almost uncomfortably familiar. The soft acoustic and haunting electric guitar intro mirrors the atmosphere of a bedroom weighted down by discontent. It's the chorus that announces the volume of thoughts sealed by pursed lips. The couple shares lead on the emotional track, their personal connection only adding to an already intimate performance. Perhaps the only flaw is that "Your Side of the Bed" will strike too deep with some fans, making it difficult to finish. The song details classic country lonesomeness with lines like, "Are you sleeping with your own regret on your side of the bed?"
The heart wrenching video for the song was shot last month by Becky Fluke and takes place at the historic Tennessee Theater and The Oliver Hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee and captures a look into one night, highlighting the tension and honesty in the song's lyrics. Like the song, the video is painfully familiar to anyone whose marriage has gone through a period of distance and discontent. It is a fictional look inside the marriage and its plot focuses on the two in their real-life roles as co-performers who are also together in life, playing on their onstage chemistry and contrasting that with the uncomfortable, awkward silence when they're off it.

Little Big Town Seeking Revenge With "Tornado"

Just in time for Halloween! Grammy-nominated country quartet Little Big Town has just released the eerie, yet sexy visuals for "Tornado," the title track form their latest fifth studio album, which spent five weeks at No.1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart. With gorgeous shots of gray skies, strong winds and chirping blackbirds, this is one music video that's perfectly in tune for Halloween with plenty spooky!
Two years after "The Reason Why," Little Big Town returned in 2012 with "Tornado," and justifiably, perhaps their poppiest yet. This four-piece country band open up their sound, once again emphasizing harmonies and melodies, encasing them in a sleek, gleaming production that pushes them ever closer to the mainstream. They've freshened up the breezy melodics and silken settings, giving the music a true modern stomp at times, but always keeping those gorgeous harmonies at the forefront. Their performance is playful and tinged with greasy Southern soul and unrivaled vocal harmonies, and "Tornado" gives them ample opportunity to showcase them.
"Tornado," a great woman scorned powerful song is about a woman seeking revenge, and that grim, dangerous opening sets the tone for the song (and video) as it propels forward. Karen Fairchild handles the lead with grit and strength. "I'm a tornado looking for a man to break," she sings, dictating every movement with a sultry voice looking for revenge. "Tornado" is all about taking a stand; rising up to the man's surprise. The fearsome beat is complimented by her confident fire, igniting on every note. It's clear that this guy has pulled the whole "love them and leave them" trick on her in the past and she's over it.
The dark, moody video that perfectly matches the tension set by the song itself, was directed by Shane Drake and filmed in Watertown, Tenn. It starts out with that haunting kind of calm and quiet with a sinister shot of a man sitting on a creaky rocking chair on the front porch of a dilapidated home. As Little Big Town enter the scene, residents in what appears to be a tiny southern town hurry back inside homes and shutter their windows. It's clear right off the bat that this group standing tall in some seriously fierce outfits is going to make this guy pay. But the quartet isn't there to harm the town, they are there to rain down justice on a man who deserves it and leave him snagged on the barbed wire and walk away.

Little Big Town Debut "Kiss Goodbye" Video

Country quartet Little Big Town is back in a big way onto the airwaves earlier this year with "Little White Church," a rollicking, sassy, bluegrassy lead-off single from their fourth studio album, "The Reason Why," which hit stores in August, and has brought the band to the top of the country albums charts for the first time. Right in their wheelhouse, the vibrant song re-established the group as a vocal force of nature, once again earning their place on radio playlists.
They say timing is everything, and momentum has now shifted some with the release of their second song "Kiss Goodbye" to radio on October, and have just released their new video on CMT for the introspective ballad song. Producer Wayne Kirkpatrick, sets the initial haunting tone with an icy and isolated triad of piano chords, but band member Phillip Sweet takes it from there, delivering verses with quiet warmth, slowly winding up for the earth-rattling, four-part harmonies that hit hard in the chorus. Sweet's lead vocal is slightly grainy and soulful, contrasting with the layered, slick and surprisingly more pop-oriented production. The lyrics, atypically for a Hillary Lindsey co-write, are simple without being overly familiar.
The video was shot in Adams, Tennessee, where the group worked with director David McClister for the first time. Band mate Jimi Westbrook offers insight into the video's content: "It's about maybe a summer love that is blossoming and happening and for some reason has to end." Over even-keeled light piano melodies and blues-driven acoustic guitar, two-part harmonies and mid-tempo percussion kick off the second verse, followed by the group's stylistic four-part harmonies in the hook as they sing about moving on from a relationship. The simple lyric with a focused message about letting go with love might not be the visually video-ready kind that prevails in country music, but is head-nodding real and relatable all the same.
"The Reason Why" is an interesting single choice, since it's markedly more pop than many of their previous songs. But it's still unmistakably a Little Big Town song, and it's a cut that shows the dynamics of the group's highly-refined sound. It may take a while to get this one going at radio since it's such a slow, downbeat song, but from both an artistic and commercial standpoint, "Kiss Goodbye" is a risk worth taking. A beautifully bittersweet song, carried out in Little Big Town's trademark perfect harmony, makes you believe and keeps you coming back for more. It represents new straight-up pop territory for the foursome, which it does.